In honor of the Christmas Season I'm posting a little musical quiz for you to try.
Feel free to answer any of the questions in the comment section and I will post the correct answer along with the name of the first person to guess correctly. Have fun!!
Directions: You must translate each of the nineteen statements listed below back into recognizable English. Each one is the title of a common Christmas song.
1. Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds. (Hark the Herald Angels Sing--Mary Ellen)
2. Nocturnal timespan of unbroken quietness. (Silent Night--John)
3. An emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good given to the terrestrial sphere. (Joy to the World--Mary Ellen)
4. Embellish the interior passageways. (Deck the Halls--John)
5. Exalted heavenly beings to whom hearkened.
6. Twelve o'clock on a clement night witnesses its arrival. (It Came Upon a Midnight Clear--Jonathan)
7. The Christmas preceding all others. (The 1st Noel--Mary Ellen)
8. Small municipality in Judea southeast of Jerusalem. (Oh Little Town of Bethlehem--Mary Ellen)
9. Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percussionistic cylinder. (Little Drummer Boy--Jonathan)
10. Omnipotent Supreme Being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.
11. Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute crystals.
12. Natal celebration devoid of color. (White Christmas--Mary Ellen)
13. In awe of the nocturnal time span characterized by religiosity. (Oh Holy Night--Jonathan)
14. Geographic state of fantasy during the season of mother nature's dormancy.
15. The first person nominative plural of a triumvirate of far eastern heads of state. (We Three Kings--Jonathan)
16. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic, resonant cups. (Jingle Bells--Mary Ellen)
17. In a distant location the existence of an improvised unit of newborn children's slumber furniture. (Away in a Manger--Mary Ellen)
18. Proceed forth declaring upon a specific geological alpine formation.
19 Jovial Yuletide desired for the second person singular or plural by us.
(Thanks for the post idea Deanne!)
8 comments:
Ooooo!!! Can I play??! :)
My post is coming soon, and you can play and look really really smart. ;)
2.) Silent Night
4.) Deck the Halls
7.) The night before Christmas
Will do more later
1 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
3 Joy to the World
7 The First Nowell
8 Oh Little Town of Bethleham
12 White Christmas
16 Jingle Bells
17 Away in a Manger
Am I being piggy by guessing at so many!
You're not piggy---you're having fun!!
6. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
9. Little Drummer Boy
13. O Holy Night
15. We Three Kings of Orient Are
11. Fat Snow (must be new, I've never heard of it before)
Jonathan, you're close on #11. What or who is fat and made of snow????
That would be your typical Saskatchewan farmer.
19 - Merry Christmas to You!
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